Type of wall: Normal perforate, spinose, Neogloboquadrina-type wall texture with underlying ruber/sacculifer or sacculifer wall with elongate parallel ridges. Pore concentrations range from around 25-60 pores/50 μm2 test surface area and pore diameters from around 0.9-2.5 μm

Test morphology: Test low trochospiral, lobulate in outline, chambers globular to ovoid. In the final whorl, 4½-5 chambers; aperture umbilical bordered by a thin rim.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.— Ciperoella n. gen. has an underlying ruber/sacculifer wall with elongate parallel ridges and short incomplete cross ridges, a wall texture like that in the nonspinose Neogloboquadrina. Porosity ranges from about 25-60 pores per 50 μm2 area. Several species are typically small in size (Globoturborotalita, to which a number of species discussed here have been previously assigned, by the distinctive reticulate nature of the wall and on average ½ to 1 more chamber in the final whorl.

DISCUSSION.— Ciperoella is a common form in the Oligocene that has been regarded by workers as a species of Globigerina. However, it does not have the wall texture of Globigerina. Hence, the naming of a new genus.

STRATIGRAPHIC RANGE.— Upper Eocene to lower Miocene.

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